nnmaildir slow startup

nnmaildir slow startup

[Justus-bulk]

Hi,

This topic seems to come up regularly on this list...:

The nnmaildir backend starts up slowly (about three minutes for me,
with about 25000 messages), apparently because it reads *all* NOV
information at startup time.

This approach obviously does not scale well.

My question is: Could this be done on a per-group basis? In this case,
the NOV parsing could be deferred to the first time one enters a
group, and nnmaildir initial startup should be almost instantaneous.

Thanks,
Justus


Addendum: Critique + suggestion out of the way, I'd like to add that I
am nevertheless extremely happy with nnmaildir. I switched to it
because of its promise of stability and easy way of archiving messages
by entire groups, and it is paying off big time in both respects. (On
the other hand, if it scaled better, there would hardly be a need to
archive messages...)